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In Arnhem kwamen boeren samen op te protesteren tegen provinciaal stikstofbeleid. Over de spoorsabotage van dinsdag, waar mogelijk boeren bij betrokken waren, zijn de meningen verdeeld. „Burgers moeten nooit risico lopen, maar als je zoveel onrecht wordt aangedaan sta je niet altijd voor jezelf in.”
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National Education Union welcomes news that schools will not have to partly fund increase from their own budgets
The UK’s biggest education union is claiming a significant victory after the government bowed to pressure and agreed to fully fund a forthcoming pay increase for teachers in England in a sudden U-turn.
Members of the National Education Union (NEU) were due to vote in a ballot for strike action next month over the government’s recent pay offer which provided for a 3.5% increase from this month, with an additional 3% from next September.
Continue reading...Politicians from Solihull, Gateshead and Kent were in online group linked to balaclava-clad far-right agitators
At least five Reform UK councillors have been members of a Facebook group linked to the far-right group involved in the blockades of Dover and Portsmouth by masked men, according to anti-fascist campaigners.
Nigel Farage’s party has been wrestling with internal divisions over its position on the Patriot Platform group, whose activities have been condemned by Farage and across the political spectrum.
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Anxious to sample some traditional Spanish culture while taking in a La Liga match years ago, Football Daily and some friends decamped to Gran Alicant. As we prepared to leave a quaint bodega (the Dick Turpin), where we’d been sampling the local hooch (Guinness), to travel to the nearby stadium, an elderly local resident with an unmistakable mackem accent informed us that the Elche home game to which we were heading was not being played until the following evening. It had fallen victim to Spanish TV’s infuriating habit of rescheduling random top-flight matches with little or no notice or consideration for Johnny-come-latelys who might have travelled from afar to watch them. We never did get to see Elche play in the flesh but did get to watch the current La Liga basement-dwellers give José Mourinho an almighty fright on TV on Tuesday night, as they went this close to snatching a point from Real Madrid.
I almost wish I was a West Ham fan. As an eternally suffering Spurs supporter, I find myself looking enviously towards the London Stadium these days. The Hammers are top of the table, banging in goal after goal (already 20 more than Spurs’ tally in the league). They score even when they lose and seem to have bought a proper No 9. My Spurs, meanwhile, continue the tradition of the last two years in style, sitting comfortably in 17th with 1,047 wingers on contract, and getting knocked out of one of the competitions they could ‘conceivably’ have won, the only competition they seem to be able to score goals in as well. In hindsight, West Ham made the right choice to go down. Hammers fans, you are welcome!” – Yannick Woudstra (and no others).
Hugh Fordham’s idea [Tuesday’s Football Daily letters] has some merit. But it reminded me of a pithy comment by Bill Nicholson. ‘Do you think he was interfering with play?’, he was asked. Nicholson responded: “If he’s not interfering with play, what’s he doing on the pitch?!’” – Harry McDonald.
In support of Hugh Fordham’s suggestion, I remember discussing the idea of interfering with play while on a training course for referees back in the 1960s. We were told that unless someone was ‘lying injured near the corner flag’ any player should be treated as being involved in play. Not a lot of room for subjectivity in those days. And obviously no thought of stopping play for the hypothetical injured player!” – Trevor Field.
Continue reading...Ursula von der Leyen announces draft law to stop apps ‘depriving children of their childhood’
The EU will move forward with plans for an under 13s social media ban, the head of the European Commission has confirmed.
Ursula von der Leyen said on Wednesday that social media apps were “depriving children of their childhood” and big tech platforms needed to prove the safety of their products.
Continue reading...With tear gas, grenades and a new law, French authorities are targeting unlicensed music gatherings. Those in the rave scene explore the parallels with the UK in the 90s
When Spiral Tribe fled England in 1992, they left behind an indelible mark on rave history. The itinerant sound system collective are best known for their involvement with Castlemorton Common festival, an unlicensed free party drawing more than 30,000 people and lasting nearly a week. After a drawn-out and notoriously expensive trial for public order offences, Spiral Tribe were acquitted of all charges. They decided to drive their repurposed military caravans out of the UK and never look back.
Their documented history often stops there. But little known is the fact that they then kicked off “the biggest illegal underground movement that Europe had ever seen”, says Spiral Tribe associate Sebastian Vaughan, AKA electronic musician 69db.
Continue reading...Royal Opera House, London
This revival of Richard Jones and Antony McDonald’s 2022 staging has kept most of its excellent original cast Lisette Oropesa is imperious and gleaming as the enchantress Alcina
Handel, but make it fun. Perhaps that was Richard Jones’s brief for his production of Alcina, first seen here in 2022 and revived by Sarah Fahie, its original movement director. And of all Handel’s operas perhaps it’s this one, with its desert-island storyline of sorcery and sex – what happens on the island stays on the island – that invites this treatment.
Jones makes the “good guys” into members of a kind of puritan cult, so the tension between the moral world and the sensual, instinctive one is less of a gentle pull, more a tug of war. Alcina’s prisoners are transformed by a squirt of her eponymous perfume into birds and animals – a parrot, a mandrill, a King Charles spaniel, all wearing prosthetic heads so beautifully made that for the past year or two they have been in display cases in the Royal Opera House foyer. The animals are kept busy fawning over Alcina or moving Antony McDonald’s sets around: there’s a huge bed, a greenhouse and an enchanted forest on wheeled platforms, found behind the doors of what might be a hotel corridor. It’s a wide stage, and there’s often at least one singer running across it. Amid all this, the opera’s moments of warmth, insight and introspection risk getting lost or at least overshadowed. It’s brittle, but it is entertaining.
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DEN HAAG (ANP) - Minister van Financiën Eelco Heinen heeft de tabellen van een eerdere conceptbegroting alsnog gepubliceerd. Dit nadat de Tweede Kamer er in meerderheid nogmaals om had gevraagd. Eerder wilde de VVD-bewindsman de stukken niet delen. "Gelet op het brede verzoek van de Kamer," doet hij dat nu wel.
In de brief bij de stukken herhaalt Heinen dat het stuk normaal gesproken niet openbaar wordt, vanwege "de noodzaak om met elkaar in vertrouwen van gedachten te kunnen wisselen over zowel wensen van partijen alsook de ruimte tot compromis die zij bereid zijn te bieden. Alleen op die manier kunnen we tot samenwerking komen."
Dagblad NRC schreef maandag al over het concept, dat volgens de krant vooral door Heinen zelf was gemaakt en tot grote onvrede leidde bij coalitiepartners CDA en D66.
Volledige vermogenswinstbelasting
In het concept had de minister het plan opgenomen om in 2030 over te gaan op een volledige vermogenswinstbelasting. In 2028 zou dit al gelden voor vermogenden die hun geld in aandelen hebben zitten. Die invulling zou de overheid in het eerste jaar ruim 4 miljard kosten. Tot 2031 kost het 11 miljard euro aan belastingderving.
Die misgelopen inkomsten zouden deels betaald worden door vanaf 2029 jaarlijks 1,2 miljard euro meer binnen te halen aan inkomstenbelasting. Dat zou vooral bij de hogere inkomens vandaan komen, door het moment waarop mensen het hoogste tarief van 49,5 procent te laten betalen, twee jaar lang niet mee te laten stijgen met de inflatie. Die grens ligt nu op ruim 78.000 euro per jaar.
DEN HAAG (ANP) - Het overgrote deel van de mensen die betrokken waren bij het busongeluk in Zwitserland is terug in Nederland. Woensdag zijn opnieuw drie mensen onderweg naar huis en staat de teller op veertig, meldt alarmcentrale Eurocross. Momenteel liggen nog vier mensen in het ziekenhuis. De verwachting is dat zij donderdag terugreizen.
Uit gesprekken met de getroffenen blijkt volgens de organisatie "steeds weer dat de impact van de gebeurtenissen groot is". Zij worden daarom voor emotionele en praktische ondersteuning verwezen naar Slachtofferhulp.
Bij het busongeluk in de buurt van Susch kwamen vijf inzittenden om het leven en raakten veertig mensen gewond. Het reisgezelschap bestond in totaal uit 49 mensen, maar vier van hen waren niet mee met de bus. Het Openbaar Ministerie in Zwitserland doet strafrechtelijk onderzoek naar de chauffeur. Hij wordt verdacht van dood en letsel door nalatigheid.
De bus was onderdeel van een Oad-reis naar Oostenrijk. Alle passagiers waren Nederlands.
We start this week with Joseph’s story about the people who are reading real ChatGPT users’ prompts and conversations. He got a bunch of documents all about these contractors and saw real prompts himself. After the break, Sam tells us all about the Automattic CEO getting kicked out. Then coming back again. In the subscribers-only section, Emanuel tells us why a16z thinks enshittification is not real.
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Oké even een tijdlijn: afgelopen 4 en 5 september opende Macklemore een Ed Sheeran-show in het New Jersey MetLife Stadium, zie bovenstaand. Daarin steekt hij het onderstaande Free Palestine-betoog af, maar richt zich ook tegen ICE. Opvallend, hij roept voor de vorm ook op tot vrijheid voor Libanon, Iran en Cuba, dat respectievelijk geregeerd word door Hezbollah, de Ayatollah's en communisten, maar goed. Het New Jersey MetLife Stadium is eigendom van de orthodox joodse miljardair Robert Kraft, die Ed Sheeran daarna inlichtte dat zijn optredens in het Gillette Stadium (eigendom van de Kraft Group) op 25 en 26 september niet door zouden mogen gaan, tenzij Macklemore uit het voorprogramma geschrapt zou worden.
Ook liet hij deze persverklaring uitgaan: "Based on Macklemore's recent actions, material shared from the stage during Ed Sheeran's shows in New Jersey, and a broader history of antisemitic rhetoric and imagery that we believe has been deeply offensive and hurtful to the Jewish community, we determined that his participation in the September 25th and 26th concerts at Gillette Stadium would cross that line."
Macklemore trok zich vervolgens terug, maar snel daarna volgden uit 'solidariteit' al Sheerans resterende openingsacts en daar bovenop ook nog eens zijn gehele tourband. En toen ontstond er een vreemde dynamiek, waarin Ed Sheeran (van o.a. Roger Waters) de schuld kreeg van de hele toestand, omdat hij Macklemore persoonlijk de uitgang zou hebben gewezen.
Maar uit een reactie van Sheeran blijkt dat niet het geval te zijn:
"I spoke with the venues at length all week to try and build a bridge. One of those people was Robert Kraft. I was also involved in direct talks with promoters along with activists on both sides to try and find a mutual resolution for all, but the venue's and promoter's decision was final. Macklemore coming off tour was the promoter's decision, it was not mine. Macklemore's contract for the tour was with the promoter, not me. I would never let down the fans who had made plans, nor would I abandon the touring crew and the other support acts and musicians who rely on me for work and to make a living."
Ook licht hij toe waarom hij zich zelf niet publiekelijk over de Israëlisch-Palestijnse kwestie uitgesproken heeft: "I am not complicit. I have my personal views on this devastating conflict. Just because I choose not to speak publicly, it doesn't mean I don't have them, and it doesn't mean I don't care. Nor does it mean I don't support causes in my own, personal way. There is a reason I do not use my professional platform for politics - my audience includes young people, often children, of all backgrounds. Those who come to my shows do not expect a political forum."
Helder! Maar goed, hier nog muzikanten in de panelen die een flink woordje over de grens spelen?
Macklemore's 'joodse karikatuur' in 2014
Two things can be true at the same time.
— Christopher Webb (@cwebbonline) September 16, 2026
I support Macklemore right to say FREE PALESTINE and speaking out for Palestinian lives.
I also absolutely condemn his antisemitism. His past grotesque Jewish caricature was indefensible and I think needs to be looked at with what we are… pic.twitter.com/vgtsvDaHIF
